Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about the rise of the acronym “YOLO” and other new slang. (Sep. 5, 2012)
Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Boston Globe and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, talks about the YOLO phenomenon and other new examples of youth slang. He wrote about it in his Boston Globe column.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Boston Globe column, Word Routes column)